Keith Fisher, a banking lawyer in Ballard Spahr's Washington, D.C., office, appears in the documentary Cleveland Versus Wall Street, which imagines what might have happened if a real suit filed by the city in 2009 against Wall Street banks following the foreclosure crisis had gone to trial instead of being dismissed. Mr. Fisher, who played the attorney defending the banks, said he took the acting job so he could help audiences understand that the financial crisis "is ever much more complex and nuanced a saga than the popular accounts would lead you to believe."
Will the bright lights of Hollywood lure him away from his legal career? "If I had to take a leave of absence to be in a film with Angelina Jolie," he said, "I wouldn’t say no."